A Shelby-based company that offers fiber-optic TV, Internet and phone services to homes and businesses is expanding its offerings.

RST Global Communications, which formed in 2009 to construct a fiber-optic service network in the Southeast, recently formed a new digital mapping and engineering company aimed at helping businesses with planning.

RST GEO will use digital technology to provide construction mapping for utilities, oil and gas, railroads, highway planning, asset management and many other industry sectors.

RST GEO will use an imaging system to cut time and costs of mapping by traditional survey teams, according to a news release from the company.

The services will target companies like CSX Corporation, Duke Energy and the N.C. Department of Transportation.

“Our ability to capture point clouds and high-resolution digital imagery and transform them into geospatial intelligence minimizes how long it takes to complete a project, increasing efficiency and reducing risk,” Jon Owen, president of RST GEO, said in a prepared statement. “For example, a 23-mile route might typically take three or four people up to three weeks to complete, but it can now be done by one person in less than a day. Businesses and consumers can ultimately access, analyze, and share data more effectively.”

RST GEO will use light detecting and ranging, as well as mobile spatial imaging technology, to create highly accurate data that can translate into a 3D model, according to the news release from the company. The same technology was recently used to help the space shuttle Endeavour maneuver through city streets to its final destination in Los Angeles.

“From road corridors, facilities and large fields, to design and construction firms, railway mapping, transmission power line scans and telecommunication fiber networks, this technology has tremendous benefit,” said Dan Limerick, co-founder and CEO of RST Global. “Few companies have invested in a mobile surveying system because of the high cost of acquiring and operating one, so our services will fill an important gap in the marketplace.”

Want to learn more?

Visit rstfiber.com or rstgeo.com for details on RST Global Communications services to customers and the new RST GEO.